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Statute or 1887. 



FOR THE 



Suppression of Contagious Diseases among Domestic Animals. 



Ami oilier information connected with tne wort or the Board. 



RULES ADOPTED JUNE 28, 1887. 



SPRTNGFIELD. ILL.: 
Phillips Brothers, Printers, 

1887. 



RULES 



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STATR OF ILaIaIJMOIS, 

FOE THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 

STATE, AND ASSISTANT STATE VETERINARIANS. 

WITH THE 

Statute oif 1 1SS/ 7 , 

FOR THE 

Smression of Contagious Diseases among: Domestic Animals, 

And oiler Information connected will tie worK of tie Board. 



RULES ADOPTED JUNE 28, 1887. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL.: 
Phillips Brothers, Printers, 

1887. 









1. When a supposed case of contagious pleuro-pneumonia, or 
lung plague in cattle is reported to the State, or an Assistant State 
Veterinarian, he shall at once notify the Secretary of this Board of 
such report, and immediately thereafter make a thorough examina- 
tion of the diseased animal or animals, and, if he has good reason to 
believe that the case under consideration is contagious pleuro-pneu- 
monia or lung plague, he shall at once quarantine the animal or ani- 
mals diseased, and the premises, and all exposed animals, and prompt- 
ly report his action to the Secretary of this Board. 

2. When a supposed case of Glanders in horses, mules or asses is 
reported to the State Veterinarian, or an Assistant State Veterina- 
rian, he shall at once notify the Secretary of this Board, and shall 
also mail to the owner or informant the list of questions prescribed 
by this Board, with a request to answer the same. Upon receipt of 
answers to these questions, if he believes the animals are affected 
with glanders, he shall at once visit the premises where such animals 
are and thoroughly examine the same, and, if upon examination he 
is satisfied that the disease is glanders, he shall quarantine the ani- 
mal or animals and premises, and also quarantine all animals or prem- 
ises that have been exposed to such disease, and j>romptly notify the 
Secretary of this Board of his action. Should the answers to the 
questions above referred to convince him that the disease is not glan- 
ders, he shall at once report that conclusion to the Secretary, accom- 
panying the same with all the correspondence relative to the case, 
and also notify the owner or informant of his opinion. 

3. The State Veterinarian and Assistant State Veterinarians will 
inspect the horses of all circus troupes (not already inspected), bands 
of Gypsies, and herds of horses brought into this State by traders, 
and if the same are found to be infected with glanders, quarantine 
them and all animals exposed, and notify the sheriff and other proper 
officers of the county, and immediately report his action to the Sec- 
retary of this Board. 

4. All quarantines established by the State or any of the Assis 
tant State Veterinarians shall continue in force until removed by 



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order of the Board. Parties whose animals are quarantined under 
the provisions of law may have the same released from quarantine 
by making satisfactory proof to the Board that the cause for which 
such quarantine was originally declared no longer exists; Provided 
that no quarantine as to animals shall be removed in less time than 
ninety days after the last exposure. 

5. The State Veterinarian and the Assistant State Veterinarians 
in reporting under Rules Nos. 1, 2 and 3, shall give the name and 
post office address of the owner of animals inspected, location of 
such animals, date of inspection, complete description of animals dis- 
eased and of animals exposed, a description of the exposure to which 
they have been subjected, the condition of the diseased animals, the 
value of such animals in their condition at the time of inspection, 
their value were they free from glanders, the name and address of 
the nearest constable, and the time employed in such investigation. 
The report must be accompanied by an exact duplicate of the quar- 
antine notice served with return made thereon of the manner of ser- 
vice, and all correspondence with all persons relative to the case. 
Said report must be addressed to the "Board of Live Stock Commis- 
sioners of the State of Illinois," and directed to the Secretary at 
Springfield, 111. 

6. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of an Assistant State 
Veterinarian that animals have been brought into his locality from a 
State or county known or believed to be infected, against which the 
Governor of this State has proclaimed, he shall immediately notify 
the Secretary of this Board of the facts so far as he knows them, 
covering the following points, viz: locality from whence such ani- 
mals came; name and post office address of owner or person in charge; 
if shipped by railroad or boat, giving name or names of same, time 
of arrival; number, age, sex and breed of animals so far as it is prac- 
ticable to ascertain. 

7. Assistant State Veterinarians shall be entitled to receive for 
their services the sum of one dollar per hour for parts of a day less 
than eight hours, but in no case shall they receive more than eight 
dollars per day for their services while engaged in the public service; 
neither shall they be permitted to make any charge, nor receive any 
compensation from a private individual during the time they are ac- 
tually employed and paid by the State. 

8. Any person desiring to ship any animal or animals from this 
State to another State, the authorities of which require health certi- 
ficates to accompany such animal or. animals, may call upon the State 
Veterinarian, or any Assistant State Veterinarian and request him to 
inspect such animal or animals. It shall thereupon be the duty of 



the Veterinarian applied to, to at once make such inspection, and, if 
he finds the animal or animals to be healthy, and to come from a lo- 
cality wherein there does not, or has not for four months preceding, 
existed any case of contagious disease among the kind of animals in 
question, he shall give to the owner of such animal or animals a cer- 
tificate of health, specifying the number, sex and breed of said ani- 
mal or animals. For such services the Veterinarian shall be entitled 
to receive from the owner the same compensation as herein allowed 
him by the State, together with his necessary expenses in going from 
and to his regular place of business or abode. In no ease shall the 
State be liable fqr the cost of such services; neither shall the Veteri- 
narian receive from any private person for such service a compensa- 
tion greater than that herein authorized. Any violation of this pro- 
vision shall be considered sufficient ground for dismissal from the 
service of the State. At the end of each month Veterinarians mak- 
ing such inspections are required to make a tabulated report of the 
same to the Secretary of this Board. 

RULES FOR DISINFECTION. 

The following rules of disinfection are recommended by Dr. Case- 
well, State Veterinarian: 

1. Have all loose litter, hay and rubbish removed and burned. 

2. Have all manure removed to land where cattle have no access. 

3. Have all feed troughs, hay racks, and all wood work thorough- 
ly cleaned by washing with hot water in which two ounces of car- 
bolic acid to each gallon of water are dissolved. 

4. Thoroughly whitewash the whole of the interior of the build- 
ing with a whitewash containing one pound of chloride of lime to 
each four gallons of water. Enough freshly burned quick lime 
should be added to make the wash show where applied. Especially 
should this be applied to the sides and front of the stalls, feed 
troughs and hay racks, (inside and out). 

5. All rotten wood work to be removed and burned, and replaced 
with new. 

6. All buckets, forks, shovels, brooms and other objects, used ' 
about the stable to be washed and covered with the same solution. 

7. All drains to be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected with the 
solution of chloride of lime, one pound to four gallons of water. 

8. In cases of glanders, all harness, poles and shafts of wagons, 
neck-yokes and pole-straps should be thoroughly washed with hot 



water and soap, and afterwards oiled with carbolized oil, one part of 
carbolic acid to ten of oil. Before applying the oil, harness should 
be hung up in the open air for one week. 

John M. Pearson, 
H. McChesney, . 
E. S. Wilson, 
Adopted June 28, 1887. Board of Live Stock Commissioners 

C. P. Johnson, Serfy. of the State of Illinois. 



Assistant State Veterinarians. 



The following Veterinary Surgeons have been appointed by Dr. 
John Casewell, State Veterinarian, in pursuance of Sec. 3, of the 
Act of 1887, for the suppression of contagious diseases among do- 
mestic animals, by and with the advice of the Board, Assistant State 
Veterinarians: 

Joseph Hughes, ........ 125, Twenty-fifth St., Chicago, 111. 

A. H. Baker, 145 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111. 

*John P. Bond, 1250 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 111. 

R. J. Withers, Chicago, 111. 

*Bower Talbott, Galesburg, 111. 

W. L. Williams, Bloomington, 111. 

John Newton, Springfield, 111. 

L. C. Tiffany, Jacksonville, 111. 

Walter Tomlinson, Alexis, 111. 

C. A. Pierce, Elgin, 111. 

A. Maguire, Joliet, 111. 

G. W. Stimpson, Quincy, 111. 

B. F. Swingley, Freeport, 111. 

B. A. Pierce, Aurora, 111. 

J. Stallman, Pontiac, 111. 

W. J. Elliott, Peoria, 111. 

J. F. Reid, Decatur, 111. 

C. M. Paxton, Kansas, 111. 

W. A. Baker, , Champaign, 111. 

*A. D. Melvin, Sterling, 111. 

E. J. Sterner, Bushnell, 111. 

James Bond, Streator, 111. 

Wm. Graham, Morrison, 111. 

P. C. Dodge, Rochelle, 111. 

W. H. McKinney, Geneseo, 111. 



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Thos. Hope, Waukegan, 111. 

B. B. Page, Rockford, 111. 

J. C. Booker, Jersey ville, 111. - 

Jno. C. Stewart, Danville, 111. 

I. J. Miles, Charleston, 111. 

*At present employed bv the Department of Agriculture, U. S„ in the Cook County 
Pleuro-pneumonia outbreak. 

The following United States Inspectors have been commissioned 
as Assistant State Veterinarians, for the purpose of enabling them to 
assist in the work of extirpating contagious pleuro-pneumonia from 
this State. 

H. S. Devoe, N. H. Paaren, T. J. Herr, Geo. C. Faville and Jas. 
Anderson. 

The following have been commissioned to inspect cattle for ship- 
ment: Isaac Lathrop, Terre Haute, 111. and M. B. Bristol, Cam- 
bridge, 111. 



"JLm Act 

To revise the law in relation to the suppression and prevention of 
the spread of contagious and infectious diseases among domestic 
animals," approved June 27, 1885, in force July 1, 1885; as amend- 
ed by an Act approved and in force April 20, 1887, and an Act ap- 
proved June 15, 1887, in force July 1, 1887. 



"Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly, That the Governor shall, with 
the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint three practical stock 
breeders, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same 
political party, who shall constitute a Board of Live Stock Commis- 
sioners, who shall hold their office in the order in which they are 
named, the first for one year, the second for two years, and the third 
for three years; and their successors in office shall be appointed for 
three years each. Before entering on the duties of their office they 
shall take and subscribe to an oath of office for the faithful perform- 
ance of their duties as such Commissioners, and shall file the same 
with the Governor. 

"Section 2. It shall be the duty of said Board of Commissioners 
to cause to be investigated any and all cases or alleged cases coming 
to their knowledge, of contagious or infectious diseases among do- 
mestic animals, and to use all proper means to prevent the spread of 
such diseases, and to provide for the extirpation thereof; and in the 



event of reasonable ground for belief that any such contagious or in- 
fectious disease has broken out in this State, it shall be the duty of 
the person owning or having in charge any animal or animals infect- 
ed with disease, or any other person having knowledge or reason to 
suspect the existence of such disease, to immediately notify said 
Board of Commissioners, or some member thereof , by communication 
to said Board of the existence of such disease, and thereupon it shall ' 
be the duty of said Board, or some member thereof, or authorized 
agent of the Board, immediately to cause proper examination there- 
of to be made, and if said disease shall be found to be a dangerously 
contagious or dangerously infectious malady, said Board or any mem- 
ber thereof, or the State Veterinarian or any Assistant Veterinarian, 
shall order said diseased animals, and such as have been exposed to 
contagion, and the premises in which they are, to be strictly quaran- 
tined for such time as the Board, or any member thereof, or such 
Veterinarian may deem necessary, in charge of such person as the 
Board, or any member thereof or such Veterinarian shall designate, 
and they shall have power to order any premises and farms where 
the disease exists, or has recently existed, as well as exposed prem- 
ises and farms to be put in quarantine, so that no domestic animal 
which has been, or is so diseased, or has been exposed to such conta- 
gious or infectious disease, be removed from the places so quaratined 
nor allow any healthy animal to be brought therein, except under 
such rule or regulation as the said Board may prescribe; and said 
Board shall prescribe such regulations as they may deem necessary 
to prevent such disease from being communicated in any way from 
the places quarantined. In all such cases of contagious and infec- 
tious diseases, the said Board or, in case the number of animals shall 
not exceed five, any member thereof, shall have power to order the 
slaughter of all such diseased and exposed animals. The said Board 
shall have power to cause to be destroyed all barns, stables, premises, 
fixtures, furniture and personal property infected with any such con- 
tagious or infectious disease, so far as in their judgment may be nec- 
essary to prevent the spread of such disease, and where the same can- 
not be properly disinfected. When the Board, upon the written re- 
port of the State Veterinarian, or any of his assistants, determine 
that any animal is affected with, or has been exposed to, any danger- 
ously contagious or infectious disease, the Board, or any member 
thereof, may agree with the owner upon the value of such animal or 
property, and in case such agreement cannot be made, said Board, or 
the member acting in behalf of the Board, may appoint three disin- 
terested citizens of the State to appraise such diseased animal or ex- 
posed animals or property. Such appraisers shall subscribe to an 
oath in writing to fairlv value such animal in accordance with the 



requirements of this act; which oath, together with the valuation 
fixed by said appraisers, shall be filed with the Board, and be pre- 
served by them. Upon such appraisement being made, it shall be- 
come the duty of the owner to immediately destroy such animal and 
dispose of the same in accordance with the order of said Board, or 
member thereof, and upon failure so to do, said Board, or member 
thereof, shall cause such animal or animals or property to be destroy- 
ed and disposed of, and thereupon the said owner shall forfeit all 
right to receive the compensation allowed by said appraisers and pro- 
vided for by this act. When the Board, upon the written opinion of 
the State Veterinarian, determines that any barns, stables, out-build- 
ings or premises are so infected that the same cannot be disinfected, 
they may quarantine such barns, stables, out-buildings or premises 
from use for the animals that may be infected by such use, 
and such quarantine shall continue until removed by the Board, 
and a violation of such quarantine shall be punished as is provided 
for violations of other quarantine by this act. 

"Section 3. The Governor shall appoint a competent veterinary 
surgeon who shall be known as the State Veterinarian, who, together 
with his assistants', shall act under the direction of said Board in car- 
rying out the provisions of this act. In the event of the inability of 
the said State Veterinarian to perform all the work which he may be 
directed to do by said Board of Commissioners, he may, by and with 
the advice and consent of said Board, appoint such other necessary 
assistant veterinarians upon terms not exceeding that paid the State 
Veterinarian. The State Veterinarian shall receive for his services 
the sum of $8 per day for each day actually employed under the pro- 
visions of this act, together with his necessary traveling expenses, to 
be certified to by said Board of Commissioners. 

"Section 4. Whenever said Board of Commissioners shall report 
to the Governor, that such diseases have become epidemic in certain 
localities in other States, or that their condition would render such 
domestic animals liable to convey such diseases, he may, by proclam- 
ation, schedule such localities, and prohibit the importation of any 
live stock of the kind diseased into the State, except under such reg- 
ulations as may be prescribed by the said Board and approved by the 
Governor. Any corporation which shall knowingly transport, re- 
ceive or convey such prohibited stock, shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less 
than $1,000 nor more than 110,000 for each and every offense, and 
shall become liable for any and all damage or loss that may be sus- 
tained by any party or parties, by reason of such importation or trans- 
portation of such prohibited stock. Such penalty shall be recovered 



in .any county in this State into, or through which such stock is 
brought upon information filed in the circuit or county court of any 
such county or the Superior Court of Cook County. Any person 
who, knowing that any contagious or infectious disease exists among 
his domestic animals, shall conceal such fact, or knowing of the exis- 
tence of such disease, shall sell the animal or animals so diseased, or 
any exposed animal, or knowing the same, shall remove such diseased 
or infected animals from his premises to the premises of another, or 
knowing of the existence of such disease, or exposure, shall drive or 
lead or ship the same by any car or steamboat to any other place in 
or out of this State, and any person or persons who shall bring any 
such diseased, or knowingly, shall bring any such exposed animal or 
animals into this State from another State; and any person or per- 
sons who shall knowingly buy, receive, sell, convey or engage in the 
traffic of such diseased or exposed stock, and any person who shall 
violate any quarantine regulations established under the provisions 
of this act, shall, for each, either, any and all acts above mentioned 
in this section be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, 
or of any one of said acts, shall be fined in any sum not less than $25 
nor more than $200, and imprisoned in the county jail until the fine 
and costs are paid, and shall forfeit all right to the compensation for 
any animal or property destroyed under the provisions of this act. 
Any veterinary practitioner having information of any such conta- 
gious or infectious disease in this State, and who shall fail to 
promptly report such knowledge to the Board of Live Stock Commis- 
sioners, shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be im- 
prisoned in the county jail not more than one year for each offense. 

"Section 5. Whenever said Board shall become satisfied that any 
dangerously contagious or infectious disease among domestic animals 
exists throughout any municipality or geographical district within 
this State, and in their judgment, it is necessary to quarantine such 
municipality or geographical district in order to prevent the spread 
of such disease into contiguous territory, they shall report the same 
to the Governor, who may thereupon by proclamation schedule and 
quarantine such district, prohibiting all domestic animals of the kind 
diseased within such district from being moved from one premises 
to another or over any public highway or any unfenced lot or piece 
of ground, or from being brought into, or taken from such infected 
district, except upon obtaining a special permit, signed by the Board 
of Live Stock Commissioners, or member thereof, or agent or officer 
of tr-e Board duly authorized by it to issue such permits; and such 
proclamation shall from the time of its publication bind all persons. 
After the publication of the aforesaid proclamation, it shall be the 
duty of every person who owns, or is in charge of animals of the 






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kind diseased within the scheduled district to report to said Board 
within one week the number and description of such animals, loca- 
tion, and the name and address of the owner, and during the contin- 
uance of such quarantine to report to said Board all cases of sick- 
ness, deaths or births among such animals, pt shall also be the duty 
of any and all persons within the? scheduled district receiving, and 
purchasing cattle for slaughter, to delay the killing of such animals 
until a veterinary surgeon with authority from said Board is present 
to make a post-mortem examination of the carcasses. Any violation 
of the aforesaid quarantine regulations and duties shall be visited 
with like penalties, which may be recovered in like manner, as is pro- 
vided for the violation of other quarantine as provided in Section 4, 
of this Act: Provided, that nothing contained in this section shall 
be so construed as to prevent the movement of any animals of the 
kind diseased through such territory under such regulations as the 
Board of Live Stock Commissioners may prescribe, and the Governor 
approve: And, provided, further, that all cattle within the scheduled 
district slaughtered by order of the Board shall not be taken from 
said district for slaughter." 

"Section 6. Nothing contained in this act,r.or any section thereof, 
shall be interpreted so as to prevent the removal or shipment of dis- 
eased or exposed animals, under the orders of the 'Board created by 
this act, from one place to another by said Board or its agents, by 
driving along the public highway or shipment on cars or steamboats, 
when, in the opinion of said Board such removal is necessary for the 
suppression of such contagious and infectious disease. 

"Section 7. Whenever quarantine is established in accordance 
with the provisions of Section 2, of this Act, valid notice of the 
same may be given by leaving with the owner or occupant of any 
premises in person, or delivering to '•'■any member of his fam- 
ilv, or any employe over the age of ten years found on the 
premises so quarantined^ notice thereof, written or printed, or 
partly written and partly printed, and, at the same time, ex- 
plaining the contents thereof. Such quarantine shall be sufficiently 
proven in any court by the production of a true copy of such notice 
of quarantine with a return thereon, of the service of the same in 
the manner above required. Any person violating said quarantine 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as is provided for in 
Section 4, of this Act, and, on conviction, shall be liable for all dam- 
age that may result to other persons in consequence of such violation: 
Provided, that any one feeling himself aggrieved by such quarantine 
may appeal to the full Board of Commissioners, who shall thereupon 
sustain, modify or annul said quarantine as theygdeem proper. 



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"Section 8. All fines recovered under the provisions of this act 
shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which the suit 
is tried, by the person collecting the same, in the manner now pro- 
vided by law, to be used for county purposes; and it shall be the 
duty of States Attorneys in their respective counties, to prosecute 
for all violations of this act. 

"Section 9. All claims against the State arising from the slaugh- 
ter of animals, as herein provided for, shall be made to said Board 
of Commissioners, under such rules and regulations as they may pre- 
scribe, and it shall be the duty of said Board of Commissioners to 
determine the amount which shall be paid in each case on account of 
animals so slaughtered, which, in cases of animals of the bovine spe- 
cies, shall be based on the fair cash market value thereof for beef, or 
for use for dairy purposes, not to exceed $75 per head; and, in cases 
of animals of the equine species, on their fair cash market value, not 
to exceed $100 per head, and report the same to the Governor; and 
the Governor shall endorse thereon his order to the State Auditor, 
who shall thereupon issue his warrant on the State Treasurer for the 
same. 

"Section 10. Said Board of Commissioners, or any member there- 
of, and the State Veterinarian and his assistants, in the performance 
of their duties under this act shall have power to call on sheriffs and 
their deputies, constables and peace officers, mayors of cities, city 
and town marshals and policemen to assist them in carrying out its 
provisions, and it is hereby made the duty of all such officers to assist 
in carrying out the provisions of this act when ordered so to do; and 
said Commissioners and the State Veterinarian and his assistants, 
shall have, while engaged in carrying out the provisions of this act, 
the same powers and protection that other peace officers have, and 
any such officer who fails or refuses to enforce the lawful orders and 
quarantine of said Board, or any member thereof, or any veterinarian 
acting under them, in the proper execution of the powers conferred 
by this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished 
as provided in Section 4, of this Act. 

"Section 11. The said Board shall co-operate with any Commis- 
sioner, or other officer, appointed by the United States for the sup- 
pression of contagious diseases among domestic animals, so far as the 
provisions of this act and the appropriations made in accordance 
therewith will allow, in suppressing and preventing the spread of 
contagious and infectious diseases among domestic animals in this 
State. 

"Section 12. It shall be the duty of said Board of Commissioners 
to keep a record of»all their acts and proceedings, and report the 



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same to the Governor annually, or oftener, if required, for publica- 
tion. The annual report shall include an itemized statement of all 
sums expended by them under this act, including a statement of all 
damages recommended by them to be paid for all animals slaughtered, 
and the amounts paid therefor. 

"Section 13. The members of said Board shall each receive the 
sum of $5 per day for each day necessarily employed in the discharge 
of their duties, their necessary traveling expenses, and other inciden- 
tal expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their duties 
under this act, to be paid on certified and itemized vouchers to be ap- 
proved by the Governor. 

"Section 14. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are 
hereby repealed." 

Clause 35 of the General Appropriation Act of 1887. 

Thirty-fifth — For paying damages for animals diseased or exposed 
to contagion, slaughtered, and for property necessarily destroyed, 
and for expenses of disinfection of premises, when such disinfection 
is practicable, under the provisions of any law of this State for the 
suppression and prevention of the spread of contagious and infec- 
tious diseases among domestic animals, the sum of seventy-five thous- 
and dollars ($75,000), per annum, or so much thereof as may be 
necessary; also, any sums of money that may be received by the 
Board of Live Stock Commissioners as the net proceeds of the sales 
of the healthy carcasses of animals slaughtered under the provisions 
of the law and paid by them into the State Treasury, to be paid only 
in the manner and on the conditions provided in said law: Provided, 
that the amount paid for animals slaughtered shall not exceed their 
actual cash value, and in no case shall the sum paid for any one ani- 
mal exceed seventy-five dollars ($75) for cattle, and one hundred. dol- 
lars ($100) for animals of the equine species. Also, to the Board of 
Live Stock Commissioners, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars 
($15,000), per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 
the payment of the necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of 
heir duties as prescribed by law, including the per diem and ext 
penses of the State and Assistant State Veterinarians, the salary of 
secretary, and the sum of five dollars ($5) per day to each member 
of the Board appointed and acting under the law, approved June 27, 
1885, in force July 1, 1885, for the actual number of days heretofore 
employed by them in such duties, and for which they have not here- 
tofore received compensation. 



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QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. 



PLEUROPNEUMONIA IN OTHER STATES. 



On account of the existence of contagious pleuro-pneumonia there- 
in, the Governor of the State has issued his proclamation forbidding 
the importation of cattle from the counties of New York, Richmond, 
Kings and Queens in the State of New York; the counties of Bergen, 
Passaic, Essex, Union, Hunterdon, Camden, Burlington, Hudson and 
Middlesex in the State of New Jersey; the counties of Baltimore and 
Prince George's in the State of Maryland; the counties of Fairfax 
and Loudoun in the State of Virginia; the county of New Castle in 
Delaware; the county of Jefferson in West Virginia, and the District 
of Columbia; except under the following rules and regulations pre- 
scribed by this Board and approved by the Governor: 

"1. The shipper, or owner of cattle from such infected localities, 
shall make and present to the proper officer a duly authenticated affi- 
davit that the animal or animals shipped from such infected locality 
are healthy and free from such disease; that such animal, or animals, 
have not been in contact with other animals actually infected with 
such disease, and have not been exposed to such disease in such in- 
fected locality; that affiant knows the history of such animal, or ani- 
mals, for the period of one hundred days before shipment, and that 
said animal, or animals, have not for said one hundred days been ex- 
posed to any infectious disease, and, also, stating where such animals 
have been kept during the said one hundred days. 

"2. Such person shall at the same time, ptesent a duly authentica- 
ted certificate from an officer of a court of record where said affiant 
resides, that affiant is a responsible person, entitled to credibility and 
personally known to said officer, attested by the seal of his office. 

"3. He shall also present a health certificate from a veterinarian 
acting under State authority, or a veterinary inspector, acting under 
authority of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, certifving 
to the present healthy condition of such cattle. 

"4. All cattle, or other live stock, shipped, or driven, into this 
State from such infected localities shall be subject to such inspection 
and examination within this State, or may be held in quarantine with 
in this State, as may be from time to time thought necessary for pub- 
lic safety by said Live Stock Commission." 



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PLEUROPNEUMONIA IN THIS STATE. 

On account of the present existence of contagious pleuro-pneumo- 
nia in Cook County, the Governors of the following States and terri- 
tories have issued proclamations forbidding the importation of cattle 
from the State of Illinois, except upon compliance with regulations 
in each proclamation prescribed: States — Connecticut, Colorado, In- 
diana, Iowa, Kentucky, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and 
Tennessee. Territories — Arizona, Montana and Wyoming. Wiscon- 
sin and Michigan only against Cook county. 

TEXAS FEVER. 

In order to protect the cattle of this State from contracting the dis- 
ease known as Texas or Splenic Fever, the Governor has issued a 
proclamation prohibiting the importation of cattle from all that ter- 
ritory of the United States south of the thirty-sixth parallel of lati- 
tude west of the Mississippi river, and south of the thirty-fifth paral- 
lel of latitude east of the Mississippi river, from the first day of 
April to the first day of November of each year, except under the 
following regulations prescribed by the Board of Live Stock Commis- 
sioners, and approved by the Governor: 

First — Cattle from the scheduled localities may, while in transit 
through this State, be unloaded for the necessary time required in 
feeding and watering, in regular railroad shipping pens or feed yards. 

Second — Cattle may be imported from the scheduled localities 
where they are destined for immediate slaughter in this State, in 
which case such cattle shall not be driven over public highways or 
commons where cattle are permitted to range at large. 

Third — In case persons are desirous of purchasing any of the above 
prohibited cattle for purposes of feeding and grazing within this 
State, such persons shall make application to the State Veterinarian, 
or to this Board, for permission to do so, when such cattle shall be 
placed in quarantine for a period of ninety days at the owner's ex- 
pense, under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the 
Board. 



15 
PROCLAMATION, 

SCHEDULING A GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRICT IN COOK COUNTY, ILL. 



State of Illinois, Executive Department, 

Springfield, July 9, 1887. 

Whereas, in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of Illi- 
nois, entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to revise 
the law in relation to the suppression and prevention of the spread 
of contagious and infectious diseases among domestic animals,' " ap- 
proved June 27, 1885, in force July 1, 1885; approved and in force 
April 20, 1887, as amended by an Act approved June 15, 1887, in 
force July 1, 1887, the Board of Live Stock Commissioners of Illi- 
nois have reported to me, under date of July 6, 1887, that the dis- 
ease known as contagious pleuro-pneumonia among cattle now exists 
throughout the following described geographical district in the State 
of Illinois, bounded by the following lines, to-wit: Commencing at 
a point on the west shore of Lake Michigan, where the south side of 
Twenty-second Street in the City of Chicago, in Cook County, touches 
said Lake; thence west along the south side of said Twenty-second 
Street, and on a line extended west to the Desplaines River; thence 
northwardly along the east shore of said river to the south line of the 
Town of Leyden; thence east to the southwest corner of the Town of 
Jefferson; thence north along the west line of the said Town of Jeffer- 
son to the northwest corner thereof; thence east along the northern 
line of the Towns of Jefferson and Lake View to Lake Michigan, and 
thence southerly along the west shore of Lake Michigan to the place 
of beginning; and 

Whereas, said Board of Live Stock Commissioners have, in pur- 
suance of said act, reported to me that in their judgment it is neces- 
sary to schedule and quarantine such geographical district in order to 
prevent the spread of said disease in said district, and into contigu- 
ous territory, and have recommended that I schedule and quarantine 
said district in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 5, of said act; 
therefore, 

I, Richard J. Oglesby, Governor of the State of Illinois, as pro- 
vided by Section 5, of said above entitled act, do hereby make proc- 
lamation of the foregoing facts, and schedule the above designated 
geographical district, and prohibit all domestic animals of the bovine 



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species within said district from being moved from one premises to 
another, or over any public highway or any unfenced lot or piece of 
ground, or from being brought into, or taken from said district, ex- 
cept upon obtaining a special permit, signed by the Board of Live 
Stock Commissioners, or member thereof, or agent or officer of the 
Board, duly authorized by it to issue such permits. 

This proclamation to go into effect from and after its publication. 

In Testimony Whereof, I hereto set my hand, 
and cause the Great Seal of State to be affixed. 
(Seal.) Done at the City of Springfield, the day and 

year first above written. 

By the Governor: R. J. Oglesby. 

H. D. Dement, Secretary of State. 



Rules Governing the Movement of Cattle through the 

District. 

1. No restrictions are placed upon the movement of bovine animals 
by rail when passing through the district. 

2. Any bovine animal brought into said district in violation of 
quarantine regulations prescribed in the Governor's proclamation, 
shall be treated as an infected animal, and liable to condemnation 
and slaughter, under the provisions of law and the owner, and the 
person in charge thereof will be subject to the penalties provided by 
law. 

9 John M. Pearson, 

H. McChesney, 

E. S. Wilson, 

Board of Live Stock Commissioners. 

Approved: 

R. J. Oglesby. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



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Members of the Board. 



Jno. M. Pearson, Chairman, Godfrey, 111. 
II. McChesney, Chicago, (Stock Yards), 111. 
E. S. Wilson, Olney, 111. 



C. P. Johnson, Secretary, Springfield, 111. 



John Casewell, State Veterinarian, 20 South Carpenter 
Street, Chicago, 111. 



Office of the Board, at Springfield, 111. 



